Sylvia’s double celebration

Longtime WN subscriber Sylvia Kent has a publishing track record many writers would envy. She has recently celebrated the publication of her 1,100th article.

This milestone came shortly before Sylvia was awarded the Harry Brittain journalism prize for an interview she did with Rabbi Lionel Blue.

Sylvia was particularly pleased with her award, as her Society of Women Writers and Journalists colleague Frances Clamp was at the same time presented with the Joyce Grenfell prize for a children’s story.

‘Both Frances and I have been long-term subscribers to Writers’ News and the continuing advice within your pages has helped me win your Freelance Writer of the Year competition in 1997 and your Community Award a few years later, amongst other writing competitions.’

Alongside her other writing projects, Sylvia is working on a ‘celebration’ of the life of the late Society of Women Writers and Journalists president Joyce Grenfell, which will be her seventh book.

‘As this is a centenary-based book and she was born in 1910, obviously I have to get on with it for publication in 2010.

‘I research every week in the British Library and I am haunting Fleet Street, the Press Club and newspaper offices for the information I need for the book. This is difficult as, being a freelance journalist, I write weekly columns, so am at the keyboard for long hours.’

Website: www.sylviakent.blogspot.com